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ACTION Grant Program 2017-2019

Thanks to the generosity of the EC Brown Foundation, we are thrilled to once again offer grants to SBHCs across the state to facilitate healthy youth relationships programming in your communities.

2017-2019 ACTION grant recipients include:

Multnomah County, Centennial and Roosevelt SBHCs

Washington County, Forest Grove and Tigard SBHCs

Umatilla County, Pendleton SBHC

Columbia County: Rainier, Vernonia, and Sacagawea SBHCs​

MENU ITEMS (OSBHA funds at least one project from each category for two years for $20,000):

1. Healthy Relationships Promotion–Promote universal messages about the importance of promoting peer and social norms that support healthy relationships. This project requires:

a. Implementing 8 related lessons per school year from the It’s All One Curriculum with Youth Action Council. It’s All One is a free human rights, healthy relationships, and sexual health curriculum that meets 70% of the Oregon Standards and Benchmarks for Health Education as related to healthy relationships. Include tactics from A Trauma Informed Approach for Adolescent Sexual Health
b. Building a partnership with health educators and domestic and sexual violence advocates in your community
c. In year 2, hosting one Healthy Breakup Summit: a model developed by youth and led by youth that intends to create space for youth to learn about and discuss healthy relationships and healthy sexuality by understanding and defining what a healthy breakup means and how that looks.

a. Implementing of 8 related lessons per school year from the It’s All One Curriculum with Youth Action Council members: a free human rights, healthy relationships, and sexual health curriculum that meets 70% of the Oregon Standards and Benchmarks for Health Education as related to Healthy Relationships. Include tactics from A Trauma Informed Approach for Adolescent Sexual Health
b. Building a partnership with health educators and domestic and sexual violence advocates in your community
c. In year 2, hosting a Consent Community Event: a youth led initiative that intends to create space for youth to learn about and discuss sexual health and sexual violence prevention

3. Responding to Toxic Stress and Promoting Trauma-Informed Environments to create a culture of Healthy Social Development for Youth—This project is only open to schools that have already built a framework for Trauma-Informed Care. This project requires:

a. Implementing of 8 related lessons per school year from the Perspectives for a Diverse America Curriculum with Youth Action Council members: a free social justice curriculum that promotes a health equity lens. Include tactics from A Trauma Informed Approach for Adolescent Sexual Health
b. Building partnerships within the school community to support trauma-informed care initiatives related to healthy relationships and sexual health, specifically.
c. In year 2, hosting a youth-led event that provides space for youth to share their perspectives about how to make their community and relationships more equitable, responsive, restorative, and resilient.

4. Promoting Social Justice and Health Equity for supporting Healthy Youth Relationships—Promote universal messages about healthy relationships through a social justice and health equity lens to benefit the socio-emotional health of youth. This project requires:

a. Implementing of 8 related lessons per school year from the Perspectives for a Diverse America Curriculum with Youth Action Council members: a free social justice curriculum that promotes a health equity lens. Include tactics from A Trauma Informed Approach for Adolescent Sexual Health
b. Building a partnership with health educators and community-based agencies that are promoting healthy relationships, diversity and equity in your community. Include tactics from A Trauma Informed Approach for Adolescent Sexual Health
c. In Year 2, hosting a Health Equity Community Forum: a youth led initiative that intends to create space for youth to learn about and discuss social justice in their community as it pertains to their relationships and sexual health.